Project: Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy to Expand Access to Safe Abortion (SAFE ENGAGE)
(2020) In Burkina Faso, one in 10 pregnancies ends in an induced abortion. The majority of these abortions are carried out unsafely—that is, using an inappropriate method or by an untrained provider, or both.
The global population milestone of 8 billion represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
PACE’s Youth Multimedia Campaigns training program equips youth advocates with the skills to create innovative digital campaigns, tell compelling population health stories, and build movements for policy change within their countries.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
(2020) Young people in Bangladesh lack sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services, putting them at risk for unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and maternal mortality.
Together with regional partners, PRB is investigating the scale and nature of the challenges affecting the quality of higher education in the East African Community.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
The mortality rate for Black Americans in non-pandemic years is higher than the mortality rate for white Americans who died from COVID-19 and all other causes in 2020.
(2004) On July 23 of this year, Arati Pashi of Calcutta (Kolkata) made the news when she died after profuse bleeding at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, a premier medical facility in that city. A doctor who was supposed to be on call was absent, and the medical college’s superintendent ordered an inquiry. The investigation revealed that Pashi had been suffering from cervical cancer.
(2012) The slow recovery from the recession has fallen hard on America's working poor families, increasing their numbers by 125,000 in 2010 to more than 10 million families, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
(2006) Although mental health is a sensitive topic the world over, the prevalence of mental illness and its consequences can no longer be overlooked. While mental disorders include a range of illnesses (such as anxiety, schizophrenia, and autism), depression is the most common and is pervasive worldwide.
